GRAIL’s Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) program
targets broad segments of the population with particular emphasis on middle
school girls and under-represented minorities. The plan is designed to convey
the excitement of science and technology in the context of lunar exploration.
Dr. Sally Ride, America’s first woman in space, will lead the program.

The education component of the plan leverages previous investments by the
GRACE and LRO missions, and meets or exceeds National Science Education Standards
and the NASA education goals.

The public outreach and Student Collabora-tion elements of the plan feature
up to 5 "E/PO MoonKam" camera-heads on each spacecraft that will
provide images and video of the lunar surface, deep-space, Earth, and the GRAIL
spacecraft. The Student Collaboration includes a separate E/PO MoonKam student-run
mission operations center similar to the already successful EarthKAM on the
ISS, also run by Dr. Sally Ride at UCSD.